At this point in football there is more recycling, more re-purposing being done than innovation when it comes to play designs, concepts and style of play. So expecting a new coaching staff to transform a team into an offensive juggernaut overnight isn’t realistic. That’s why Year One of Mike McDaniel’s tenure as the Miami Dolphins’…
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Certain moments of Tony Oden’s career will haunt him for the rest of his days – chances he wishes he had back, decisions he wishes he faced with the wisdom of age and experience. Oden calls these rough experiences “keloids,” a type of scar that grows larger even than the injury that caused it. “It’s…
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Chris Simon knew he wanted to showcase Black excellence at Blk Swan, a hip new restaurant and bar in Harbor East. The only way the restaurant owner could imagine doing that was by decorating the space with art made by Black interior designers, artists and other creatives. “It serves as a bridge for the Black…
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By Carla Vigos Special to the Globe Being 100% Italian, I thought it was about time that I did a pasta dish. Growing up we had pasta twice a week, on Sunday and Thursday. On Sunday, my mother would make a huge pot of sauce. My father was a butcher, and she would add a…
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The pairings and schedule for the CIF Southern California Regional boys and girls soccer playoffs. First-round games are Tuesday, March 1, semifinals on Thursday, March 3 and finals on Saturday, March 5. All games start at 5 p.m. unless noted. CIF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL BOYS SOCCER First round Tuesday, March 1, 5 p.m. DIVISION 1…
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San Pedro honored fallen firefighter Jonathan Flagler along with LA County Fire Station 83 (Flagler’s unit) as local first responders had a Grab & Go Pancake Benefit Sunday, Feb. 27, outside Siren’s coffee in San Pedro. Culinary Arts students from Los Angeles Harbor College handled the grill work. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer) San…
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Guns and abortion may be the two defining issues of the U.S. Supreme Court’s current term, and California politicians, with their typical arrogance, are attempting to use one issue to influence the justices’ decision on the other. “We’ll see how principled the U.S. Supreme Court is,” Gov. Gavin Newsom sneered last week. Lately the governor…
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“The Big Short” was a 2015 film about how some financial whizzes, realizing that the nation’s overheated housing market was on the verge of collapse, made billions of dollars by betting on failure. California played no small role in the housing debacle during the first decade of the century. Housing construction had surpassed 200,000 units…
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On Saturday, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States agreed to cut off several Russian banks from SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. Calls continue to extend the ban to all Russian banks. That has been referred to as the last, most devastating of all sanctions. We need to be…
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Anniversaries and birthdays are usually thought of as celebratory events, but on February 16th, California marked an unhappy milestone. It started in November 2020, when voters narrowly passed Proposition 19. While the initiative contained some positive elements, it also repealed an important taxpayer protection from the California Constitution that taxpayers have relied on for nearly…
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